Ambasha

Brown Bread

April 12th 2008
Well I’ve got a good few weeks to catch up on on the blog front, including a few before we went on our field trip, but for now so you know I haven’t completely given up on my blog entries I thought I’d just say hello world and write a few lines about being back in Assosa. Unfortunately is seems the power outages we experienced on our trip are happening across the country and today it's ter ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Benishangul-Gumuz Region » Asosa

Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... ... read more

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Al Mercer & Sara Hassen

Al and Sara

Hi - this is Al & Sara's blog! We are 2 VSO volunteers working in Assosa, Beneshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia for 2 years from Feb 2008 to 2010. Don't try to find us on the map, 'cos we don't appear. We are proud to announce a grand total of 0 entries in the Lonely Planet - Ethiopia & Eritrea and um, 0 entries in the Bradt guide. In fact as an "emerging region" within Ethiopia our area is pretty anonymous both internally and (clearly) internationally. With the mud strip airport being relaid with tarmac we had a 2 day 4x4 journey here from Addis. That said, Assosa is a regional capital, has a p... full info

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Tibigna
This is not ambasha!!!! this is called Tibigna k.

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